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FHC #54: The incredible rulebreakers of medicine’s past

Author and historian Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris is fascinated with medicine’s grisly past and the extraordinary physicians who changed the profession by breaking the rules. One of those rule-breaking doctors of …

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CTT #61: Is the Covid-19 pandemic over? Is a monkeypox pandemic next?

About a month ago, Dr. Anthony Fauci said that the United States is “out of the pandemic phase,” but he later clarified that the country is, “out of the full-blown …

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FHC #53: Diving deep into physician burnout and America’s views on Covid-19

Welcome back to the Fixing Healthcare series, “Diving Deep,” which features a robust and probing discussion into some of healthcare’s most complex subjects and deep-seated problems. In this episode, Dr. …

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FHC #52: The future of medical misinformation, education and motivation

Welcome back to Unfiltered, a show that features two iconic voices in healthcare for a half hour of unscripted, hard-hitting talk. Dr. Robert Pearl has twice appeared on The ZDoggMD …

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FHC #51: Eric Topol on breaking the rules and putting patients in charge  

One hard part about interviewing Dr. Eric Topol is knowing where to begin. Topol wears a seemingly infinite array of hats: He is the director of Scripps Research Translational Institute. …

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CTT #60: Will mask mandates return to planes and trains?

The biggest Covid-19 news of the last month came out of Florida, where a federal judge struck down the CDC’s mask mandate on planes, trains and in transportation hubs. As …

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FHC #50: Diving deep into physician intuition and hospital prices

Welcome back to the Fixing Healthcare series, “Diving Deep,” which features a robust and probing discussion about some of healthcare’s most deep-seated problems. In this episode, Dr. Robert Pearl Jeremy …

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FHC #49: An unfiltered chat about ‘the slap,’ emotional doctors, and more

Welcome to Unfiltered, a new show that brings together two iconic voices in healthcare for an unscripted, hard-hitting half hour of talk. Dr. Robert Pearl has twice appeared on The …

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FHC #48: Marty Makary on breaking the rules of medical education

Season seven of the Fixing Healthcare podcast focuses on the unwritten and outdated rules of American healthcare—many of which Dr. Marty Makary would badly like to see broken. In this …

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CTT #59: What does Covid-19 infection do to the brain?

A group of researchers in the UK examined hundreds of brain scans that were taken both before and after people became infected with the coronavirus. The study, published in Nature, …

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